I realized I’ve been sort of ignoring women’s perspective throughout a lot of my life, so I decided to try a woman author, although a book shouldn’t replace relationships with women obviously. I read that only like 20% of Atwood’s readers are men, but I’m not terribly surprised about that stat so far. The book description has sounded more exciting than the book itself, romantic suspense, sci fi, gothic drama.
I’m actually quite critical of books in general and sometimes with main stream literature, but even a book like Count of Monte Cristo, which wasn’t necessarily a fav of mine but was fun overall felt slow around the 35% mark through.
I like that the book has historical elementals like WW1 incites and Atwood isn’t so shy about having some morbidity like the sci-fi story in a story (although I question if that is actually fantasy and not sci fi, which I prefer anyway).
The issue is I’m running into chapters where the most exciting thing that happens is a stranger is invited to to a dinner party or one of the sisters draws in a coloring book she shouldn’t. The posh dinner party describes every single persons clothing, all the food, and it feels a bit tedious to me and to be frank this does seem like a topic a women would more likely be interested in than man.
Does it get better? I think my intentions are good in trying to get perspective, but I am struggling some, I may try to finish it anyway.
I typically like thrillers, horror, crime, fantasy or something with historical elements, a little bit of romance is a plus, but not if its the main plot. Maybe I should try Agatha Cristie? or The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang.
by sillywanderer22